Master & Detail records in same page?

HI all,

I'm very new to codeigniter so please forgive my ignorance. 
I have a master table (say orders) and a detail table ( say order_details).
I'm actually using the sample database from mysql to check this.
I want to have a page that shows all the orders  (Paginated and searchable if possible) I have and 
when I select an order to have a (new page ?  pop-up page ? I prefer same page if possible) 
to show all the order_details lines that are relevant to my  selected order .
I understood from reading and googling, that unless I use javascript some parts of the above I will
not to be able to do with codeigniter .  If anyone has an example  case like mine to
I want some hint?  example code ?  to start  digging.

Thanks In advance
George

You may want to use the jQuery DataTables for this.

See this link on master details.

DataTables Master Details

What did you Try? What did you Get? What did you Expect?

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